Duquesne

Hartford, John

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Duquesne (Steamboat)
River steamers
Steamboats
Coal

The Duquesne was built originally as the H. M. Hoxie in 1887 at Cincinnati, Ohio for the St. Louis and Mississippi Valley Transportation Company of St. Louis, Missouri. Her dimensions were:- 213.2 x 34.3 x 5.6 feet; 622 tons. She had 1420 horse power. In the early 1900s she was sold to the \"River Combine\" of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and towed coal south to New Orleans. On April 8, 1906, she exploded her starboard boiler, took fire and sank at Portland, Ohio. She was later raised, repaired and renamed Duquesne. She was dismantled at 1916 at Elizabeth, Pennsylvania.

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